Ya run for office….
Win….
They have to fight a rear action US House action during your term in office?….
In December 2019, when he was facing impeachment for his scheme to extort Ukraine into smearing his leading political opponent, President Donald Trump warned that his party would take revenge when it had the opportunity. “Some day there’ll be a Democrat president and there’ll be a Republican House, and I suspect they’re going to remember it,” Trump predicted.
That same month, Representative Louie Gohmert proposed Republicans would impeach Joe Biden should he win the upcoming election. “We’ve already got the forms, all we have to do is eliminate Donald Trump’s name and put Joe Biden’s name in there. ’Cause he’s on video, he and his son. He’s basically admitted to the crime that’s being hoisted on the president improperly.”
Note that the proposed grounds for impeaching Biden were already in place. The charge of corruption that Trump was using to smear Biden with was being turned around into grounds for impeaching Biden if and when he assumed office.
“I think this door of impeachable whatever has been opened,” saidRepublican senator Joni Ernst the next February. “Joe Biden should be very careful what he’s asking for because, you know, we can have a situation where if it should ever be President Biden, that immediately, people, right the day after he would be elected would be saying, ‘Well, we’re going to impeach him.’” Ernst specifically proposed Republicans impeach Biden “for being assigned to take on Ukrainian corruption yet turning a blind eye to Burisma because his son was on the board making over a million dollars a year.”
Indeed, the first motion to impeach Biden was filed the day after his inauguration, by Marjorie Taylor Greene, now a close ally of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The charge, she wrote, was “for abuse of power by enabling bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors.” “As Vice President, Joseph Biden was the senior Obama Administration official overseeing anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine. Hence, any illegal activity involving corruption conducted by Hunter Biden within or in relation to Ukraine would fall under the purview of the Office of Vice President Biden and the Obama State Department’s anti-corruption efforts …” the motion claimed. “The evidence of widespread knowledge, corruption, and collusion on behalf of the Biden family with foreign nationals is clear and compelling.”
That House Republicans are now launching an impeachment inquiry over this very same charge seems not exactly coincidental. It is also not a surprise that Trump has been privately urging House Republicans to impeach Biden.
What has transformed this longstanding desire into an actual impeachment investigation is not any investigative finding, but simply an impatience by Trump and his supporters to get on with it. “Either impeach the bum, or fade into oblivion,” Trump posted. “They did it to us!”….